Tony Blair and George Bush should be tried over Iraq, claims Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for
Tony Blair and
George Bush to be taken to the International Criminal Court in Hague to answer for their part in the Iraq war.

In an article written for the Observer, Archbishop Tutu stated that the Iraq military campaign had made the world ‘more unstable than any other conflict in history’ and accused the men of behaving like ‘playground bullies’.

The Nobel peace prize winner compared the former leaders to ‘playground bullies’. (Getty)

‘The then-leaders of the United States and Great Britain fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and drive us further apart,’ he wrote.

‘They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand – with the spectre of Syria and Iran before us.’

He went on to say that the death toll as a result of military action in Iraq in 2003 should be grounds enough for Blair and Bush to be tried in the Hague.

However, he added that different standards seemed to apply to the Western former leaders than to some of their African and Asian counterparts who have been made to answer for their actions.

Blair retaliated by calling the article ‘the same argument we have had many times with nothing new to say’.

Earlier this month, Archbishop Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his work against apartheid, pulled out of a leadership summit in Johannesburg because he did not wish to share a platform with the former UK prime minister.